Jae-Kyung Park came to CSIS in February 2012 as a visiting fellow in the newly established ROK-U.S. Policy Scholars Program. He is a Korean diplomat by profession, with experience in overseas missions at the Korean embassies in Belgrade and London. From 2008 through 2011, a time when ASEAN-ROK relations upgraded toward strategic partnership, he was one of the leading officials in designing ROK policies in East Asian multilateral diplomacy, including ASEAN+3, the East Asia Summit (EAS), and the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). His research interests cover U.S.-China relations in East Asia. Mr. Park graduated from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 2001. He earned a bachelor’s degree at Seoul National University in 1992, and he served in the ROK Air Force for three years. In July 2012, Mr. Park published “The US Pivot to Asia and Asia’s Pivot to the US” in the East-West Center’s Asia Pacific Bulletin.

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